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A Mediterranean house gecko in ambush on a nest of a sphecid wasp Sceliphron spirifex. Mediterranean house geckos are nocturnal. [21] They emit a distinctive, high-pitched call somewhat like a squeak or the chirp of a bird, possibly expressing a territorial message. Because of this aggressive behavior, juveniles avoid most interaction with ...
They include the Indo-Pacific gecko, brown anole, Texas horned lizard, and Mediterranean house gecko. [4] Human predation and habitat destruction has placed several reptile species and subspecies at risk of extirpation or extinction.
Mediterranean thin-toed gecko, Mediodactylus (kotschyi) oertzeni (Dodecanese islands in Greece) [3] Caucasian gecko, Mediodactylus russowii LC (in Europe southern Russia, extirpated) Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus LC (southern Europe) Family: Phyllodactylidae. Gomero wall gecko, Tarentola gomerensis LC
Hemidactylus is a genus of the common gecko family, Gekkonidae. [3] [4] It has 195 [5] described species, newfound ones being described every few years.These geckos are found in all the tropical regions of the world, extending into the subtropical parts of Africa and Europe.
The family Gekkonidae is a member of the infraorder Gekkota, which seems to have first emerged during the Jurassic period (201–145 million years ago). Eichstaettisaurus schroederi is recognized as one of the earliest examples of an ancestral gecko species.
This file has an extracted image: Hemidactylus turcicus (Mediterranean House Gecko), feet underside.jpg. Camera location 34° 51′ 33.26″ N, 32° 24′ 58.64″ E
The tropical house gecko is a small lizard, having an average total length of 10–12.7 centimetres (3.9–5.0 in) (including tail) [5] and an average mass of 4.6 grams (0.16 oz). Females are on average somewhat larger than males, with the male average snout-to-vent length (SVL) being 51.56 mm (2.030 in) and the female average SVL being 54.47 ...
Iranian gecko, Mediodactylus aspratilis Anderson, 1973; Barton's thin-toed gecko, Mediodactylus bartoni (Stepánek, 1934) Short-limbed bend-toed gecko, Mediodactylus brachykolon Krysko, Rehman & K. Auffenberg, 2007; Mediterranean thin-toed gecko, Mediodactylus danilewskii (Strauch, 1887) Asia Minor thin-toed gecko, Mediodactylus heterocercus ...